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    Texas Chickenstock 2008 - update 1st page

    I couldn't make it last year, but I'm really gonna try this year!
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    CHICKENSTOCK 2008

    I realize this was talked about several pages ago, but I wanted to bring this up before anyone got their hopes too high and went looking for it..."The National Poultry Museum" as of September 2005 was ONE small building of equipment within the farm town within the Agricultural Museum and a coop...
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    Ok, I am new and my husband thinks I am crazy!

    Welcome to the addiction, and be prepared! When we wanted to have chickens last fall, we wanted six. We now have 41 and we shoulda built a bigger hen house.
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    Butchering knives & cleavers for poultry -- which are best?

    These are what I use: Knife http://www.cutleryandmore.com/details.asp?SKU=5198 Shears http://www.cutleryandmore.com/details.asp?SKU=651 I use the knife for everything from killing to piecing, except for cutting off the head and neck. I use the shears for cutting off the head/neck and for...
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    Help with my cornish x rocks...

    My MM order of 10 cornish Xs and 15 layers came at the end of Feb. This was my first attempt at meat birds. At two weeks I put the Xs on pasture in a 4x8 enclosure. One promptly disappeared during the first day. No feathers, no blood, just gone, with the top netting inside of the enclosure...
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    How did you come up with your screen name?

    I thought "chickchair" was because of chairpersonage, too... I used to be a "Mudhen"...that was the name of a new-defunct ceramics group in Arlington, TX. My uncle used to call me by my screenname when I was a kid. I used it first when I signed up for a bee forum, and just kept it for the...
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    egg cartons

    As it turns out, everybody that knows I have chickens is saving them for me. I even stopped by a friend's shop in Springtown and she handed me a grocery bag full! So right now I'm good. Thanks for the offer
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    It's CONTEST Time - BYC Bumper Stickers!!!!

    Chillin' with my peeps!
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    Ideal Poultry question.

    When I ordered from them last October, the extras were Barred Rocks.
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    egg cartons

    Hey Wes, did you mean they were nine and a quarter cents apiece? What was their minimum order, do you remember? I can drive there too, but may not need as many as they'd want me to buy...
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    Texas

    Hello everyone! We're in Ft. Worth with 11 chickens: 9 are 15 weeks old, 2 are 13 weeks old. One roo that shoulda been a hen. We also have dogs, bees and earthworms. Hey Rafter 7, my mother-in-law lives on Cedar Creek Lake! bmarshall61, most of ours are from Ideal (the two younger ones are...
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